Searching in Google

                We always looked up to google for our academic works, whether it be assignments or seminars or presentation materials or help with projects or what ever else you could think about.We could save a lot of time on googling if we google the thinks we need the right way.

   Heres one way that helped me save a bit of time finding materials on google.

             Generally we look for material in specific format whether it be doc or pdf or ppt. We could narrow down the search results by following a simple searching term.

             For example if we are looking for pdf file on specific subject like signed arithmetic. We could do it by modifying the search term to "filetype:pdf signed arithmetic " This will narrow down the search results to only pdf files that have words signed or arithmetic or both.

Heres the example

So to find doc file its filetype:doc signed arithmetic
     to find  ppt file its filetype:ppt signed arithmetic

                   

              Also there is an interesting search tool in google that is google scholar  which will help us in collecting materials for academic purpose. We could narrow down search results based on author names or title or date of publication etc.

Screenshot of Residue Number System search result on Google Scholar .

                     Its always good to collect material from known and trusted sites rather than beating around the bush. But there is nothing wrong in spending sometime googling for it.